Government has denied reports that it is witch-hunting ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor.
According to the Deputy Minister of Information, politicizing the issue of coup will not serve anybody’s interest but will only make culprits escape the law.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' program, Deputy Minister for Information, Pious Enam Hadzide explained that the government has no interest in witch-hunting anybody for any reason.
These are issues of national interest, so we are only doing ourselves harm if the government is blamed and accused of witch-hunting ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor.
He said the law should be allowed to take its course to its logical conclusion.
He added that the government has no interest in the case and will remain neutral in this coup-plotting case.
"The government is committed to ensuring the safety and the security of Ghanaians," he reiterated.
“Our advice to the Counsel would be to refrain from attempting to draw government into the operations of the security agencies and to focus on the defence of his client and to produce evidence, if there is any, of what he claims is government’s attempt to witch hunt,” he said.
"The government denies this allegation of an attempted witch-hunting vigorously. It is not true and it is just a figment of the imagination of the learned Counsel and we will advise that he should focus on the defence of his client, abreast himself with the facts of the matter under investigation and to allow the security agencies to do their work," he added.
ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor, was on Monday, November 4, 2019, taken into the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) over his alleged involvement in a supposed plot by some persons to destabilize the country.
Already, some nine persons including Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, who’s believed to be the lead mastermind, had been charged for treason felony and are standing trial.
ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor becomes the second top police officer to have been questioned on the matter after COP Nathan Kofi Boakye.
Source: Isaac Kwame Owusu/Peacefmonline.com/[email protected]
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How I wish the government is not witch hunting for real. My pain is Akufo-Ado might end up disgracing himself and would be the most uuselesS head of state ever. Witch hunting Agordzor would cost this government big time. MARK MY WORDS.
Your Govt is bad that somebody cannot wait for four year to get you out. please wake your sleeping president up
The most stupiiid and foolishhh president in Ghana is Akufo Addo. He looks like a monkey. Is not this Monkey fault. Is central Region. There will be Arab Spring in Ghana 2020. Monkey Akufo Addo should come and arrest me. Foolishhh president. All die be die ***barred word***.
The first time I watched this man deliver a speech on politicization of the Police Service, I doffed my hat for him. I liked his outspokenness. I am now at sea why he got himself into this case. I am sorry for him.
Minister for Visa, Pious Enam Hadzide explained that the government has no interest in witch-hunting anybody for any reason.
Now it is an offence to criticise Nana Addo's government. Do so and you are hunted down. I think the Constitution should be amended to read "Freedom of speech as long as you don't criticise President Nana Addo"
You yourself need some lessons in logical thinking. The whole passage you've written lacks logic, coherence and common sense. To struggle this hard to connect someone's treasonable act to governance shows that you are a near m0ron.
then that pastor is very ***barred word***,
IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT, I THINK I EVER READ A WHATSAPP MESSAGE FROM ONE PASTOR THAT THIS GOVERNMENT HAS COME TO POWER TO LEARN HOW TO GOVERN. THE PASTOR ADVISED THE NANA ADDO LED GOVERNMENT TO GO AND LEARN GOVERNANCE BEFORE COMING TO GOVERN. INITIALLY, I DID NOT GET THE HEAD OR TAIL OF THE ADVISE. BUT TODAY AS I SIT DOWN AND BEGIN TO ANALISE ISSUES CRITICALLY OF THIS GOVERNMENT, I HAVE COME TO APPRECIATE THIS PASTOR'S STATEMENT AND ADVISE TO THE NANA ADDO LED GOVERNMENT. I THINK IT IS HIGH TIME NANA ADDO BECOME HUMBLE, GETS OUT OF GOVERNMENT AND TAKE BETTER LESSON IN GOVERNANCE FROM GHANA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (GIMPA) BEFORE MAKING A SECOND COME BACK TO PLEAD WITH GHANAIANS TO RULE THE COUNTRY AGAIN. I THINK IT WILL DO NANA ADDO GREAT GOOD TO HEED THE ADVICE. THERE IS CONFUSION IN MAJORITY OF THE YOUTH THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING NOW. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH!